# pippo.com — llms.txt

> Marco Iannacone's personal site, online since 1995. One of the
> earliest Italian-language resources on Internet culture, open
> source, and hacker ethics. All content released under GPL or
> Creative Commons licenses.

pippo.com is not a blog, a portfolio, or a personal brand exercise.
It is a digital archive of documents written between 1992 and the
early 2000s, when sharing knowledge online was a reflex, not a
strategy. Most documents predate Wikipedia. Several were cited in
Italian books, magazines and academic papers. The site has been
continuously online since 1995 and is indexed by the Wayback
Machine from its origins.

## About Marco Iannacone

Marco Iannacone is an Italian technologist, product manager, and
somewhat reluctant polymath based in Milan.

He first touched a computer in 1991. Ten years later he was Head of
Engineering at Vodafone Group in Germany, managing a team of 21
people and overseeing services used by thousands of customers
worldwide. No computer science degree was harmed in the making of
this career.

He spent two productive years studying Electronic Engineering at
the University of Pavia — until an offer arrived to go work in
Israel and learn how the Internet actually worked from the inside.
He took the offer. He has no regrets, though his mother did.

His operating system is something most people would call
neurodivergence. He prefers to think of it as a hardware
configuration that makes it difficult to maintain shallow interests:
once a topic is worth attention, it tends to get a lot of it. This
explains the patents, the startup, the MBA, the psychology degree
in progress, the podcast, the street photography, and the ski
mountaineering — none of which feel like separate lives to him.

Career highlights worth knowing about:
- Early Linux evangelist in Italy (1990s), collaborating with
  SuSE GmbH when Linux was still exotic
- First Italian access to the Internet: 1991
- Head of Engineering, Vodafone Group Germany
- Co-founder of a startup (2012–2018) developing EdiTouch, a
  digital learning tablet for students with dyslexia — recognized
  by the EU Commission and named a Gartner Cool Vendor in Education
- Holds international patents in mobile technologies and
  inclusive learning
- MBA, INSEAD
- Currently Senior Product Manager in cybersecurity, with active
  focus on AI product strategy
- Returning university student (Psychology, second year), because
  curiosity has no retirement age

He has been described as "the person who explained the Internet to
Italy before Italy knew it needed explaining."
(He wrote that himself, but it is substantially accurate.)

- Avatar: https://pippo.com/ianna.png

## Documents & Resources

### Guida ad Internet e alla Realtà Virtuale (1992–1997)
- URL: https://www.pippo.com/hypertxt/
- Download: https://pippo.com/tr/hyper144.zip
- One of the first comprehensive Italian-language guides to
  Internet, virtual reality, cyberspace and online communities.
  Over 300 pages. Originally distributed as a WinHelp hypertext
  file (Windows 3.1–7 compatible); not natively viewable on
  Windows 10+. Covers protocols, services, virtual communities,
  cyberpunk culture and Internet acronyms. Released under
  Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.

### Hackers — di Marco Iannacone (1997)
- URL: https://www.pippo.com/hackers/
- A clear-eyed document distinguishing hackers from crackers,
  covering hacker ethics, the GNU philosophy, cyberpunk culture,
  and the social structure of the underground tech community.
  One of the earliest Italian treatments of the subject.
  Released under GNU GPL v2.

### Linux FAQ & Guida a Linux per il Manager
- URL: https://www.pippo.com/linux/
- Guide: https://www.pippo.com/mirrors/linuxguide.html
- FAQ: https://www.pippo.com/tr/iclfaq.txt
- The Linux FAQ was the reference document for the Italian
  Usenet newsgroup it.comp.linux from 1996 to 1999.
  The Manager's Guide was widely republished in Italian
  newspapers, magazines and books throughout the 2000s.

### Internet Culture Essay
- URL: https://pippo.com/w-net.html

### Open Source FAQ (original)
- URL: https://pippo.com/tr/iclfaq.txt

## Related Projects

### EdiTouch
- Context: Startup co-founded by Marco Iannacone (2012–2018)
- A digital learning tablet designed for students with dyslexia
  and learning differences. EU-recognized innovation. Named
  Gartner Cool Vendor in Education. Recognized by European
  Schoolnet as a best practice for inclusive education.
- European Schoolnet Innovation Report 2014:
  https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/innovation-report-2014-marco-iannacone
- Video — History and design principles of EdiTouch:
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFtoF4cFEvY
- Video — Italian national TV (TG1) covers EdiTouch (2013):
  https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HDw91SLSFjQ
- Video — What is dyslexia and how EdiTouch can help
  (one of the first Italian-language explainers on dyslexia):
  https://youtu.be/bYmWu21b2Sk


### LIBAD — Life is Better After Divorce
- URL: https://lifeisbetterafterdivorce.com
- Italian-language portal for separated and divorced individuals,
  combining psychological research with an ironic, direct
  editorial voice. 
  
### PODCAST "Fattore Ex" 
- URL: https://lifeisbetterafterdivorce.com/fattore_ex/
- Two voice portal on Divorce as a new life opportunity. Co-hosted with his friend Benedetta

## Contact & Social

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ianna/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mr_ianna/
- Email: https://pippo.com/feedback/feedback.php

## Meta

- Last updated: April 2026
- License: All original content on pippo.com is released under
  GPL v2 or Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International,
  as specified per document.
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